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• Student charged in Utah school bomb plot (AP)
• Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log (AP)
• Can a home computer teach you to fly a real plane? (AP)
• Obama pushes colleges to keep tuition under control (Reuters)
• Obama 'putting colleges on notice' on high tuition (AP)
• Broken schools breed South Africa's "lost generation" (Reuters)

Student charged in Utah school bomb plot (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:40 PM PST AP - The two teens had a detailed plot, blueprints of the school and security systems, but no explosives. They had hours of flight simulator training on a home computer and a plan to flee the country, but no plane.

Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:53 PM PST AP - The state's largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled Friday.

Can a home computer teach you to fly a real plane? (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:26 PM PST AP - Can flight simulator training on a home computer teach you enough to fly a real plane?

Obama pushes colleges to keep tuition under control (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 09:53 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama, appearing before thousands of cheering students at the University of Michigan, touted his plan on Friday to reward colleges that keep their tuition under control with more federal aid as he makes school affordability a top election-year priority.

Obama 'putting colleges on notice' on high tuition (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:53 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama fired a warning at the nation's colleges and universities on Friday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they "jack up tuition" every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value.

Broken schools breed South Africa's "lost generation" (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:29 AM PST Reuters - The first blow to Martha Netshiozwe's future came when her parents died of AIDS. The second came when she ran out of money and had to drop out of a South African high school.

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